what is the best app to use on XP tablets for handwriting recognition?

[mcveigh]

a friend just bought a toshiba tablet, she says she saw a demo of someone writing words on the screen and then them getting converted to text automatically in the windows journal.
I don't see how to do that in journal, is there a way?

I think it may have been a different app that had lines like the jounal has???????:frown:

 

[kranky]

Windows Journal does it. You hand-write on the screen in Journal, then:

1. Select the writing that you want to convert.
2. Go to Actions -> Convert Handwriting to Text


If that's not what you meant, it could have been someone using the Tablet Input Panel. It converts whatever you write to text and then sends it to the active application. If you had Journal open, and used the TIP for handwriting, it would convert your writing to text on the fly as it was being sent to Journal.

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: kranky
Windows Journal does it. You hand-write on the screen in Journal, then:

1. Select the writing that you want to convert.
2. Go to Actions -> Convert Handwriting to Text


If that's not what you meant, it could have been someone using the Tablet Input Panel. It converts whatever you write to text and then sends it to the active application. If you had Journal open, and used the TIP for handwriting, it would convert your writing to text on the fly as it was being sent to Journal.

that's just it it wasn't converting the input on the fly to the journal, it did it with other applications though.

 

[akiraxtc]

OneNote? TabletPlanner?
Check these two out to see if one of these is what you saw

 

[kranky]

Then it was probably the TIP or the "write anywhere" feature of the TIP. It converts handwriting to text and feeds it to whatever is running in the active window. For example, if I'm in Excel and am entering a formula, I can bring up the TIP and handwrite the equation. The TIP converts it to text and hands it off to Excel just as if I typed it in from the keyboard.

Same with any other application. Using the TIP is transparent to the application.

Explanation of how the "write anywhere" feature of the TIP works.